The one with Richard Hammond
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Motoring maverick Richard Hammond gets us revved up for the latest special of The Grand Tour: Sand Job, which is out now on Prime Video.
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| 0:00.0 | Craving some great 80s music. |
| 0:03.1 | Play Virgin Radio 80s plus. |
| 0:05.5 | I want your love. |
| 0:08.1 | On DAB Digital Radio, on the app, on your smart speaker, |
| 0:12.7 | and at Virgin Radio 80splus.com.uk. |
| 0:15.9 | I got my mind. |
| 0:18.7 | Even if we're just dancing in the dark. love Chris Evans. Woo! Love the 80s. Virgin Radio. 80s plus. |
| 0:29.6 | All right, Vass us over to you. You may recognise our next guest if you've ever watched a television. |
| 0:36.0 | Best known for hosting Total Wipeout and Richard Hammond's workshop, |
| 0:40.1 | he's also part of a little known trio who do car shows. |
| 0:44.2 | Their latest grand tour, Sand Job, is available now on Amazon Prime Video. |
| 0:49.1 | So, hi time, we cross-examined Richard Hammond. |
| 0:52.7 | All right, Richard! |
| 0:54.1 | Great intro, by the way. |
| 0:55.5 | I was a big in that one. |
| 0:56.2 | I liked it. |
| 0:56.7 | That was a cracker. Richard, before we get into what you do for a living, let's talk about Steve Wright. Oh, no. Genuine, genuinely, it just took the ground out from under my feet when I heard that and he was. And the same for the whole nation. I think, and you said it this morning, |
| 0:53.9 | he was so good at what I think, and you said it this morning, |
| 1:12.0 | he was so good at what he did that he sort of slipped into the national consciousness. |
| 1:17.2 | We just, he was just there? Yeah. And I don't think we'd realize what we had until it was taken |
| 1:21.3 | away. Genuinely, it was a real national belief. Oh, it's a body blow, wasn't it? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah. We were all shook to the core. Obviously, the news came out of nowhere. |
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